MARSHALLTOWN — IMCA Weekly Racing Series track points began at Marshalltown Speedway Friday night. Marshalltown Speedway is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
There were 130 drivers signed in to race on Kruse Family Night. Fans saw plenty of great two-and three-car wide racing all night.
Bill Whalen Jr. had the long haul from Riverside pay off in the first feature race of the night. Whalen passed John Gill on the second lap of the IMCA sport compacts Whalen went on to take the easy win, which he dedicated to Merv Chandler. David Moorman was second, Gill came home third, Aaron Miller was fourth and John Walker was fifth.
Up next was the Mod Lites 15-lap feature and before a lap was completed the caution came out when John Schuring had some mechanical issues on the backstretch. Travis Stensland took the lead on the restart, but it was short lived as Andy Hennigar worked his way from seventh to second only to grab the lead away on Lap Two. Hennigar cruised on to take the win over Stensland, Travis Brandt, Josh May and Joe Glick.
The IMCA hobby stocks 12-lap feature also saw the caution come out before a lap was completed when Andy Hick spun in Turn Two and Jamie Songer had no where to go, both would continue. Jason See went to the lead from his fourth-place starting spot on lap one. See and the field saw a caution come out after the completion of lap four when Riley Songer was facing the wrong way on the backstretch.
On the restart, See saw John Watson and Jake Nelson on his back bumper. See had a slip of the grip in Turn Two allowing Watson to grab the lead. Watson claimed the win with Eric Stanton taking second after starting 12th. Benji Irvine, Eric Larson and Nelson rounded out the top five.
Justin Medler and Jared VanDeest led the field to the green flag in the 18-lap IMCA sport mod feature and it was VanDeest grabbing the lead. Despite several caution flags flying and lap traffic late in the race, VanDeest remained out front to take the win. Doug Smith started eleventh and came home in the runner up spot. Clint Luellen, Justin Medler and Travis Peterson rounded out the top five.
Brian Irvine did much the same for the victory in the IMCA stock cars 18-lap feature. Irvine got out to the early lead and held off challengers through cautions and lap traffic. Irvine saw Trent Murphy ran second, Donavon Smith finished third, Jay Schmidt was fourth and Devin Smith was fifth.
The final feature of the night was the IMCA modifieds. It did not disappoint everybody in attendance.
Luke Wanninger pulled out to the lead following a restart after a caution on the first lap of the race. Several other cautions bogged things down a bit, Wanninger wasn’t able to hold Ronn Lauritzen off after another restart. Laurtizen got a great restart and two laps later found his way to the lead and began to pull away.
Lauritzen was only two corners away from seeing the checkered only when yet anothor caution came out, forcing a green-white-checkered. Lauritzen held off any challenges to take the win over Adam Larson, Jimmy Gustin, Tyler Droste and Jon Snyder.
This Friday night is KMJ Performance Night at the Marshalltown Speedway. Hot Laps at 6:45 p.m. and Racing at 7:30 p.m.
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Marshalltown Speedway Results
Kruse Family Season Opener
April 18th, 2014
IMCA Modifieds
B-Feature (top 4 advance): 1. 505 Racer Hulin; 2. 00J JD Auringer; 3. 18J Jake Strayer; 4. 8 Tony Snyder; 5. 43S Scott Simatovich (State Center); 6. 9E Eric Elliott (Boone); 7. 3W Chris Webb (McCallsburg); 8. 14E Chase Ellingson (Williams); 9. 17R Derek Reimer (Marshalltown); 10. 12 Andrew Kinser (State Center); 11. 1BC Tony Cox (Boone); 12. 40RC Rod Clement (Rhodes)
Feature: 1. 10K Ronn Lauritzen (Jesup); 2. 2L Adam Larson (Ames); 3. 19 Jimmy Gustin (Marshalltown); 4. 92 Tyler Droste (Waterloo); 5. 69X Jon Snyder (Ames); 6. K1 Kyle Krampe (Baxter); 7. 10C Cayden Carter (Oskaloosa); 8. 85 Dustin Smith (Lake City); 9. 24R Regan Tafoya (Farmington, NM); 10. 505 Racer Hulin (Laurel); 11. 71 Troy Cordes (Dunkerton); 12. 12D Joe Docekal (Dysart); 13. 21 David Brown (Kellogg); 14. 8 Tony Snyder (Redlyn); 15. 2Z Zack Rawlins (Newton); 16. 64ZC Brandon Leeman (Roland); 17. 27W Jason Wolla (Ray, ND); 18. 00J JD Auringer (Waterloo); 19. 18J Jake Strayer (Newton); 20. 20 Luke Wanninger (Minburn); 21. 87 Joel Bushore (Boone); 22. 3Z Randy Havlik (Boone); 23. 21K Kyle Brown (Kellogg); 24. 19V Eric Van Iten (Green Bay, WI)
IMCA Stock Cars
Feature: 1. 26 Brian Irvine (Oelwein); 2. 25 Trent Murphy (Jefferson); 3. 35 Donavon Smith (Lake City); 4. 19J Jay Schmidt (Tama); 5. 81 Devin Smith (Lake City); 6. 93 Michael Jaennette (Newton); 7. 271 Randy Brands (Boyden); 8. 3W Jeff Wollam (Marshalltown); 9. 4JR Russell Damme Jr. (Waterloo); 10. 87A Aaron Matthias (Fairbank); 11. 54 Robbie Merkle (Des Moines); 12. 50X Kevin Balmer (Garwin); 13. 199 Nick Thelen (Kellogg); 14. 196 Chuck Davis (Conrad); 15. 94 Steve Meyer (Grundy Center); 16. 45 Matt Deaton (Newton); 17. 43X Nate Thelen (Newton); 18. 87 John Emerson (Waterloo); 19. 04 Don Vis (Marshalltown); 20. 2L John Lang (Des Moines)
IMCA SportMods
B-Feature (top 4 advance): 1. 32L Ty Luellen; 2. 198 Sam Wieben; 3. T17 Tom Rawlins; 4. 43 Creston Williams; 5. 6 James Aschenbrenner; 6. 11 Michael Strait (New Providence); 7. 6T Siraj Thomason (Montezuma); 8. 16 Austin Schuring (Newton)
Feature: 1. 80J Jared VanDeest (Grundy Center); 2. 12 Doug Smith (Lake City); 3. 3L Clint Luellen (Minburn); 4. 75 Justin Medler (Minot, ND); 5. 25 Travis Peterson (Gladbrook); 6. 777 Jayme Duinink (Pella); 7. 72 Brett Lowry (Montezuma); 8. 7R Shawn Ritter (Keystone); 9. 24B Brandon Brinton (Nevada); 10. 32L Ty Luellen (Minburn); 11. 57R Ryan King (Marshalltown); 12. 7 Carter VanDenBerg (Oskaloosa); 13. 22A Shawn Albers (Wellsburg); 14. 43 Creston Williams (Atkins); 15. 198 Sam Wieben (Dysart); 16. 6 James Aschenbrenner (Aplington); 17. 40S Shawn Simatovich (Gilman); 18. 98 Bill Hildreth (Marshalltown); 19. T17 Tom Rawlins (Kellogg); 20. 64 Zach McKinnon (Atley, WI); 21. 19J Jenae Gustin (Marshalltown); 22. 9 Scott Williams (Atkins); 23. 74 Darren Medler (Minot, ND); 24. 7RA Ryan Ashton (Beaman); 25. 32N Neil Follett (Conrad)
IMCA Hobby Stocks
Feature: 1. 4W John Watson (Des Moines); 2. 7B Eric Stanton (Hartford); 3. 79 Benji Irvine (Cedar Falls); 4. 20E Eric Larson (Holland); 5. 29 Jake Nelson (Newton); 6. 500 Garrett Eilander (Newton); 7. 96R Jamie Songer (Ankeny); 8. 88 Mike Leffler (Ankeny); 9. 166 Justin Lichty (Waterloo); 10. 4X Gary Pfantz (State Center); 11. 42 Riley Songer (Lorimor); 12. 4P Matt Pohlman (Keystone); 13. 82 Jennifer Hulin (Marshalltown); 14. 14T Mitchell Thomas (Marshalltown); 15. 2 Nick Welch (Cedar Falls); 16. 42T Tyson Overton (Carlisle); 17. 79S Jason See (Albia); 18. 23G Dustin Tapp (Ames); 19. 17 Andy Peck (Newton); 20. 26 Brice Udelhoven (Newton); 21. 88D CJ Dall (Marshalltown); 22. 5H Andy Hick (Adel); 23. 21 Jonathon Juett (Belle Plaine)
Mod Lites
Feature: 1. 15 Andy Hennigar (Ankeny); 2. 89 Travis Stensland (Nevada); 3. 4 Travis Brandt (Des Moines); 4. 99 Josh May (Desoto); 5. 3G Joe Glick (Des Moines); 6. 8 Dusty Masolini (Des Moines); 7. 6 Mike Morrill (Altoona); 8. 64 Randy Bryan (Ames); 9. 46 Kevin Grisham (Boone); 10. 17 Cory Sauerman (Grimes); 11. 13 Ryan McCrory (Pleasant Hill); 12. 12 Amber Coffman (Nevada); 13. 28 Terry Brown (Nevada); 14. 5J Jimmy May (Desoto); 15. 95 Mike Kennedy (Boone); 16. 4L Larry Sorenson (Ames); 17. 94 Dustin Marshall (Prairie City); 18. 82 Charlie Brown (Nevada); 19. 21 John Schuring (Kellogg); 20. 66F Eric Hendrickson (Ankeny)
IMCA Sport Compacts
Feature: 1. 00W Bill Whalen Jr. (Riverside); 2. 6M David Moorman (Beaman); 3. 02 John Gill (Marshalltown); 4. 01 Aaron Miller (Marshalltown); 5. 4 Douglas Byers (Grinnell); 6. 7 John Walker (Marshalltown); 7. 22T Travis Losenicky (Garrison)